Chapters 5 and 6 — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Chapters 5 and 6
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Mollie's departure, the quarrels over the windmill, Snowball's expulsion by Napoleon's dogs, the end of the Meetings,
trade with humans, the pigs in the farmhouse beds, and the windmill's fall.
Key quotations: 'I have something very serious to say to you', 'None of the animals ever mentioned Mollie again.', 'Vote for Snowball and the three-day week', 'Vote for Napoleon and the full manger', 'he lifted his leg, urinated over the plans, and walked out without uttering a word', 'nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars', 'they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones', 'there would be no more debates', 'Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure!', 'The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation.', 'All that year the animals worked like slaves.', 'This work was strictly voluntary', 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets', 'Snowball has done this thing!'.
Structure: Snowball's expulsion as the turning point of the novella, and the windmill's fall turned by Napoleon into a hunt for a traitor.
Context: Trotsky's defeat and exile, Stalin's control of the party, and the windmill as the five-year plans.
